Michael Yh Wang

Michael Yh Wang is a software engineer on NVIDIA RAPIDS. He currently contributes his engineering skills towards cuDF, cuSpatial, and Numba. Before NVIDIA, he received an M.Sc. from Yale University. His earlier experience includes working as a visual effect supervisor at an independent film project, and achieving the first place at the WAIC 2020 hackathon competition. Michael has strong interests in software engineering, computer graphics algorithms, and compiler technology. He believes in a future where accelerated computing can become more accessible to the public through compiler and language innovations.
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Posts by Michael Yh Wang

Simulation / Modeling / Design

Bridging the CUDA C++ Ecosystem and Python Developers with Numbast

By enabling CUDA kernels to be written in Python similar to how they can be implemented within C++, Numba bridges the gap between the Python ecosystem and the... 8 MIN READ
Data Science

Writing Ray Tracing Applications in Python Using the Numba Extension for PyOptiX

Ray tracing is a rendering algorithm that can generate photorealistic images by simulating how light transmits and interacts with different materials. Today, it... 14 MIN READ